Doper Ornament Exchange - 2008 Edition

Sounds interesting - any chance of a photo?

I haven’t mailed an ornament yet but I went to a craft fair today.

Dangerous, dangerous place. Lots of ornament options. And other lovely things. I really, really wanted a quilt I saw… and it was absolutely worth the price (the workmanship was exquisite)… 1500 dollars isn’t too much, is it? (fortunately sanity - and the desire to make next month’s mortgage payment - prevailed).

Yeah! I thought he was pretty cute. :slight_smile:

They look like this. (Those are my family’s birthstone colors, not traffic light colors. :slight_smile: )

Package sent to Mama Zappa yesterday. Should be there by Thursday.

Pbbth, the kitty came on yesterday’s UPS truck, and it’s adorable. Thank you!

Hooray! I’m glad you liked it. I thought it was super cute and appropriate for a CrazyCatLady such as yourself. :stuck_out_tongue:

My attempt to make homemade ornaments this year was truely sad. I had issues with the paint being too thick or too thin and not sticking to the glass. =( I probably need to start a thread asking for crafty-help =)

Anyways - sent one in the mail to my person! And, as a bonus, you can tie a ribbon to the top of the xmas card and hang on your tree too! You should have it just in time for xmas.

I received my ornament from hocow yesterday – a white glass ornament commemorating her hometown’s history. Thanks! (And the card survived just fine . . . hee hee!)

(I started taking guitar lessons recently, and there’s a song that I’ve been practicing that’s in my head quite a bit. See if you can guess which one it is, hocow . . . :slight_smile: )

I just dropped mine off at the P.O., so it will soon be winging its way south via Priority Mail.

Ornament both sent and received as of today.

It is a really nice one, and I got it yesterday. Thank you very much. Now all I need is to get the tree up so I can put it on there.

Oh, and how did you know I love those peppermint bark squares? Thank you for the candy, too.
And btw, I sent mine. Should be there Monday. The recipient will be sharing a bit of what’s going into my kids’ stockings, too.

I bet I know. :slight_smile:

I’m glad you like the ornament, Scarlett67!

I have no idea which song you’re talking about, even though it’s probably really obvious. Some googling suggests “Milk Cow Blues”? :confused:

Haha, I’m a dork sometimes.

I’ll give you a hint: The title is a four-syllable word that’s featured prominently on your ornament. :slight_smile:

Yeah!! That got their a lot more quickly than I expected!

PHEW!!! Finally mailed mine, today. I’m afraid the package may not reach its recipient until after Christmas :frowning: Bad MZ, no cookie!

To the recipient: no, I have not in fact mailed you two boxes of generic Prilosec antacids :wink: those were simply the only boxes I could find that would protect the ornaments and still fit in a padded mailer.

I have received one as well, though I haven’t opened the package yet - saving that for when I’d sent mine off and we actually have the Christmas tree set up (tonight, probably).

I opened my ornament tonight, from CrazyCatLady, and it’s a seriously cute bead+wire dragonfly that she made with her own two hands! I wish I were that creative!!

Photo is at
http://picasaweb.google.com/MamaZappa/SDMBOrnamentExchange#

You mean Shenandoah? Haha, that’s what I was thinking originally, but then thirdwarning said she knew, so I thought maybe it was related to my screen name. Turns out, thirdwarning knew where I lived as she sent me my ornaments!

I got a very cute set of onion and garlic ornaments. She also packed some peppermint candies, Hershey kisses, and (I love you for these) Candy cane kisses.

Thanks, thirdwarning! :smiley:

Update:
It looks like everyone has sent out their ornament, unless I’ve mis-entered something.

The following have received ornaments:
Sateryn76 has received an ornament from Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thirdwarning has received an ornament from Sateryn76
hocow has received an ornament from thirdwarning
Scarlett67 has received an ornament from **hocow **
Zabali_clawbane has received an ornament from Scarlett67
pbbth has received an ornament from Zabali_clawbane
CrazyCatLady has received an ornament from pbbth
Mama Zappa has received an ornament from CrazyCatLady
mmouse9799 has received an ornament from alice_in_wonderland
**Ducktail **has received an ornament from mmouse9799

And five more are still in transit.

Oh, good, I was starting to get worried because I hadn’t heard anything long after it should have arrived. I hope she liked what I sent.

Would you believe I actually had to count the syllables in Shenandoah?

I’m glad you like the candies. I snitched them from the stuff I got for the kids’ stockings. And I’m glad everything got there safe and sound.